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Check your results:• Each student will receive a copy of the text.• Check your results – how close did you get to the original?• Which words were most difficult to understand?• How many words did you ask the Reader to spell?

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Reading / fluency practice: This is the openingparagraph from The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)by Carson McCullers. Practice reading it until itfeels comfortable for you. Concentrate on yourfluency or smooth speaking, and on pronunciation.Then, look at a phrase or part of a sentence, andbefore speaking it, look up. Note the places whereyour voice rises or falls (intonation).

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The town itself is dreary; not much is there except thecotton mill, the two-room houses where the workerslive, a few peach trees, a church with two coloredwindows, and a miserable main street only a hundredyards long. On Saturdays the tenants from the near-byfarms come in for a day of talk and trade. Otherwisethe town is lonesome, sad, and like a place that is faroff and estranged from all other places in the world.The nearest train stop is Society City, and theGreyhound and White Bus Lines use the Forks FallsRoad which is three miles away. The winters here areshort and raw, the summers white with glare and fieryhot.